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2 Shets.-Sheet 1 (No Model.)

F. LE B. BEDWE-LL, $UPPORT, FOR TELEGRAPH GABLES.

Patented Jan. 24, 1893.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2;

F. LE B.. BBDWELL. SUPPORT FOR TELEGRAPH GABLES.

No. 490,534. Patented M. 24, 1893.

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NITED STATES PAT ENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK LE BRETON BEDWELL, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

SUPPORT FOR TELEGRAPH-CABLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 490,534,dated January24, 1893.

Applieationfiled September 26, 1892. Serial No. 446,896. (No model.)Patented in England July 21, 1892,110. 13,380.

T0 001% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK LE BRETON BEDWELL, a subject of the Queenof Great Britain, and a resident of .38 Old Broad Street, in the city ofLondon, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDevices for Preventing Injury to Telegraph-Cables, (for which I haveobtained a patent in Great Britain, No. 13,380, dated July 21, 1892,) ofwhich the following is afull, clear, and exact specification, referencebeing made to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sideelevation of a device constructed according to my invention forpreventing injury to telegraph cables. Fig. 2, is a plan view of thesame. Fig. 3, is an edge view of the same. Fig. 4, is a side elevationshowing a modification of the invention. Fig. 5, is a detail plan viewof the boss at thelower end of the eye exhibited in Fig. 4, and Fig. 6,is a detail elevation showing another modification.

For the purpose of my invention I employ an improved mooring swivel A tothe loop,

, which the telegraph cable has a fair lead thus avoiding the danger ofits being nipped by the shackles of the mooring chains. The lower partof the swivel may also be constructed with three or more eyes so thatthree or more mooring chains can be shackled to it (see Figs. 4 and 5.)The loop link or upper part of the swivel may also be made with a boss H(Fig. 6) having a hole I made through its center (in line with that inthe pin 0) through which the telegraph cable has a fair lead when tworiding chains are used, viz, one from each hawse pipe of the ship.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A device forconnecting telegraph cables with vessels, &c., consisting of the looplink B having an opening at one end, the eye E having the boss Fprovided with an orifice G for the passage of a telegraph cable, and thetubular pin 0 extending through the opening at one end of the link andswiveling the eye thereto, said tubular pin being located approximatelyin coincidence with the orificein the boss of the eye, substantially asand for the purpose described.

In witness whereof I have hereto signed my name, in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses, this 3d day of September, 1892.

FREDERICK LE BRETON BEDWELL.

Witnesses:

EDWARD SMITH Foo'r, Accountant, 38 Old Broad Street, London,

WILLIAM D. THOMSON. 38 Old Broad Street, E. O.

